Senior Software Engineer DevX

About the role

AI-powered and agentic developer tools are changing what is possible creating an opportunity to rethink how engineers write test review ship and operate software. At Reddits scale that means building tools that are not only more intelligent but also faster more reliable easier to use and grounded in strong engineering fundamentals.

This role sits at the center of that work: designing and building the platforms services systems and workflows that improve how Reddit engineers develop software. Youll work across backend systems infrastructure developer tooling and AI-powered workflows to solve problems that affect hundreds of engineers across the company. Youll collaborate closely with teams that own CI/CD infrastructure security and product systems as well as engineering teams across Reddit that rely on these tools every day. Were looking for someone with strong engineering fundamentals infrastructure experience product judgment and a real interest in developer experience and developer productivity.

Some of our present and future challenges include:

• Designing and building the next generation of developer tooling including agentic and AI-powered workflows.
• Improving developer velocity confidence and service reliability across Reddit Engineering.
• Building tools and workflows that make writing testing reviewing and shipping code easier.
• Scaling our infrastructure services APIs and processes to serve a growing engineering organization.
• Understanding internal users needs and turning that understanding into meaningful product and technical improvements.
• Building integrations across Reddits existing infrastructure CI/CD security source control deployment and operational systems.
• Investigating building and integrating novel technologies where they solve real problems for developers.

Youll draw on your backend infrastructure and platform engineering experience to build developer tooling that is scalable reliable easy to use and valuable to a growing engineering organization. Youll work directly with engineers across Reddit to understand their pain points shape solutions incorporate feedback and communicate the impact of the teams work.

What Youll Do

• Work cross-functionally across Reddit Engineering to understand developer needs quickly prototype solutions and iterate based on feedback.
• Design and build backend systems APIs infrastructure and platform capabilities that improve developer workflows across Reddit.
• Build scalable and reliable systems across both AI-powered developer workflows and the core non-AI systems engineers rely on every day.
• Lead high-impact projects across Reddits developer tooling ecosystem by writing and reviewing code and design docs aligning stakeholders and making pragmatic technical tradeoffs.
• Build tools and integrations that connect developer workflows with Reddits existing infrastructure CI/CD security source control deployment and operational systems.
• Design and implement maintainable APIs services libraries and platforms that support internal developer tooling at scale.
• Improve the teams tools processes and best practices while raising the bar for reliability usability scalability and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers and help shape a roadmap that reflects real developer needs and delivers meaningful improvements to Reddits engineering organization.

You Have

• 5 years of hands-on post-grad non-internship professional software development experience with backend infrastructure or platform engineering as a core strength.
• 3 years of industry experience working on large-scale distributed systems including building and improving highly scalable and reliable services.
• Strong proficiency with Go and significant experience with Go in production systems.
• Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs using technologies such as GraphQL REST HTTP or gRPC.
• Experience building platforms developer tools libraries frameworks or internal systems used by other engineers.
• Experience with infrastructure Kubernetes cloud providers or other systems that support modern software development and delivery.
• Hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools and workflows with curiosity and judgment about where these tools can meaningfully improve developer productivity.
• A track record of leading large ambiguous high-impact projects that require cross-team collaboration technical judgment stakeholder alignment and clear ownership from problem definition through delivery.
• A user-focused mindset with strong empathy for internal engineering users and a focus on usability reliability scalability and quality.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction and navigate complex requirements across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers raising the technical bar and helping teams make pragmatic tradeoffs.
• A self-directed action-oriented approach. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity learning quickly and driving work forward even when the path is not fully defined.

Bonus Points

• Experience working in developer experience developer productivity internal platforms or developer tooling.
• Experience building tools or workflows for internal engineering users.
• Experience building or extending CI/CD systems and partnering with teams that own build test and release workflows.
• Experience with GitHub Enterprise Server or large-scale source control platforms.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience measuring the impact of platform or developer productivity work through experimentation measured rollouts analytics reliability metrics or qualitative feedback.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k with Employer Match

• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If due to a disability you need an accommodation during the interview process please let your recruiter know.